Drudge carried this China rejects computer spy claims as “ghost of Cold War” and it made me think of something a contact at Brandeis said to me in a meeting prior to filming. I think the Cold War is much more prevalent than I expect, because I’m too young to have felt its impact maybe.

The Chinese spying noticed by the Canadian government has not been linked to the Chinese government. Why are we so quick to say it’s probably the Chinese government? There are people in the U.S. who are hacking hacking all the time. It’s a minority that exists in any population.

“Nowadays the problem is that there are some people abroad avidly concocting rumors about China’s so-called Internet espionage,” said a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry. And he links it back to a “ghost abroad called the Cold War”.

Russia, China cooperate on new currency proposals has interesting implications and is possibly the cause for some of the Western anxiousness. Coupled with Cold War sentiment residue–which I’m excited to better understand–makes it difficult to be really understanding. I wonder where this anti-Sino sentiment comes from in my generation, though.

or maybe I’m wrong.